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my corn gets about a drink a day. is this enough?

also, my corn is almost a year old and is only about 14 inches long. whats wrong with her?

How often do you feed her, and what do you feed her?

From memory, my femal normal was probably around that size after one year - but she has grown hugely in her second year, and is now 34.5 inches. Once she became big enough to take small adult mice, the growth was amazing!

Simon's Snake Stuff

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0.1.0 normal corn - "Slinky" | 0.0.1 normal ball python - "Humbug"

he eats 1 pinky mouse a week.

I think you are underfeeding him: a snake of that age should at least be on fluffy mice by now, pinkies are tiny. I suggest that you should consider feeding him your remaining stock of pinkies 2 or 3 at a time, then switching to fluffs.

Simon

Simon's Snake Stuff

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0.1.0 normal corn - "Slinky" | 0.0.1 normal ball python - "Humbug"

thanks

i mean he

As long as you supply her with a drinking bowl of clean water all the time then I would not worry about seeing her go to the bowl to drink. I see my corns drink more when I mist them then I ever do from the bowl of water. As far as the size of your corn snake..... It is all going to depend on feeding rate and temps. Cold snakes don't eat and they don't grow, hungry snakes don't grow much either, but 14" on a yearling is not super small either. The other poster was right, they grow alot once they get beyond the pinkie feeding phase. My yearlings from last season are still on large pinkies, small fuzzies, but by this time next year they will be eating weanlings and the males will be breeding, some will even breed their corns at this 18 month mark, but I prefer to wait the extra year.
Thanks
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

My yearling corn is 3 foot long and about 200g and eat adult mice since about 4 months. Is that too big?!
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1 female stripped amel
1 female anery
1 male hypoamelanstic

If your yearling corn is truly that big and you have been feeding it adult mice since three months old then yes, you have artificially over sized your snake it that is unhealthy for it, power feeding a snake is a bad idea regardless of species.
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

I didn't over feed him... fuzzy was too little for him, it was like he had not eated! But for now i feed him small small adult mice 1 time a week and it's just fine!!! Maybe he's just a big corn! i'm surely not the girl which feed my snake too big pray because it's one of my worst fear! I always try to give easy to eat pray.

My others corns are still on fuzzy mice and they take about two day to digest... i mean to come back to their normal size after meal... but this one eat and he come back to his normal size after about 12 hours and he is ready for activity after about 16 hours... he go out of his hide and go at the coolest part of my terrarium. He's in full healt!

What is the normal size for a yearling?! and what should he be eating at this age!? Maybe i'm not right but here is a pic of him when eating, plz tell me if it is ok!

(i'm sorry if what i say is hard to understand... english is just not my first language)

Thanks

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1 female stripped amel
1 female anery
1 male hypoamelanstic

He is about the size of my 18-20 month old snakes 2002 babies. My yearling(2003 babies) are about 16-20 inches now and my 2002 babies are about 30" and eating just weaned mice. If that snake is a baby from last year then it is huge. The mouse that you are feeding it seems a bit big but not overly so, but if you were feeding it that same sized mouse at 4 months of age then that may have been a bit too much. it is possible that you just have a feakishly large corn snake that eats alot! The picture does not seem to show a snake that is a "pin head" but that is more common in boas anyway, but he seems to look healthy and has very nice coloring,.
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

He was born last year, i buy him in march and he was about 2 weeks old at this time!

I feed him adult since 4 months.... but when he was 4 months he was eating not pinky but just a bit bigger, i don't remember how to name it but... they were looking like pinky but a little bigger.
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1 female stripped amel
1 female anery
1 male hypoamelanstic

Your snake is a bit big if it hatched in March 2003, but since most babies hatch in July-September, it should be bigger than the average 2003 snake.

And for reference, here are the sizes of mice:
Pinkies
Fuzzies
Hoppers
Weanlings
Adults
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alstiver@hotmail.com

1.0 2001 Hypo snow cornsnake
0.1 2002 Pastel Ghost cornsnake
1.1 2002 Bloodred cornsnakes
0.1 1998 Het Hypo, Het Caramel cornsnake
1.0 2000 Hypo Het Caramel cornsnake

I am making a guess by the timeing of the babies and the typing that you are not in the USA?
Just a guess and just curious,
Thanks
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

I'm from Québec (canada)!! Not a place for snake!

He was 11 inch long when i buy him!! so little so cute!!! I've buy two other corns during summer and they were bigger about 15 inch for the anery and 16 for my stripped amel.

How is the average size for yearling corn!? I don't have my corn snake manual with me at this moment but there is a chapter were kathy says the minimum size to consider a corn adult and i don't remember the exact size she mentionned but it was near of 3 feet and she says (i wish i'm not making a mistake) they get to that size at about 1year or 1year 1/2 (i think, if my memory is good). And when they are adult they are ready to mate, so my hypo is now an adult... i don't know if he is normal size but i know he is very healty and surely the most lovely snake!! And maybe a big guy!!! Maybe he will beat Marcel poots biggest corn hercule!

It's strange because i already post a question on this forum to know if my corn was a normal size for his age and at this time i remember he was 2 feet and also everyone told me he was big for his age... but i dont remember how old he was. I will check my terrariofiles, i write everything about my snakes in it... but for now i'm not at home...

Thx for your answers!

one last thing... i will check in my terrariofiles to know if im exact too but i think at 4 monts he was eating litlle little fuzzies. Maybe between fuzzies and pinky. And for now he eats not big adults but small adults, maybe you call them weanlings, i will try weigh one of them and told you its weight.
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1 female stripped amel
1 female anery
1 male hypoamelanstic